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No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

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Learned Hand
Age: 89 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 27
Died: 1961
Died: August 18
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Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
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There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.
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Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.
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If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.
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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.
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The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.
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The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
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Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered but it has generally proved impossible to smother them and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.
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In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal
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No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics it grows less and less so.
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Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
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A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.
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Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
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Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.
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Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.
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Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.
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Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?
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In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
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Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.
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